Professor Kevin Fenton, National Director of health and wellbeing from PHE reiterated the health body’s views that e-cigs were clearly much less harmful than regular cigarettes and said that vaping devices are helping many smokers quit.

“This new framework will encourage organisations to consider both the benefits and the risks when developing their own policies on e-cigarettes.”

“Different approaches will be appropriate in different places, but policies should take account of the evidence and clearly distinguish vaping from smoking.”